None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.
JOHN DRYDENOf all the tyrannies on human kind the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
More John Dryden Quotes
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For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Swift was the race, but short the time to run.
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All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
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Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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And love’s the noblest frailty of the mind.
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Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies.
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I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.
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For secrets are edged tools, And must be kept from children and from fools.
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If you have lived, take thankfully the past. Make, as you can, the sweet remembrance last.
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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
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Luxurious kings are to their people lost, They live like drones, upon the public cost.
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Repentance is but want of power to sin.
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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
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Pride – Lord of human kind.
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A happy genius is the gift of nature.
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